Chateau Bureau transformation begins, Cottage Roof Done & New Retreat Announcement! 🎨 Ep #78 

All one color. Much more elegant. You don’t want it to look like a circus. I saw some murals you had hanging on the wall?? That would be a perfect room for that - with your dark color on the woodwork! Tres chic!

I agree one solid colour. Loving the blues.😊

The fire place is a great bouncing off point

I call the office "the John Deere room", so I'm glad you're finally changing the color scheme. I like green, but maybe not that green. Good luck.

I second the idea of checking in with little green shop for ideas. Maybe a new wallpaper may come of final selections. I mentioned also forest murals, but could be too dominant. The farrow ball colors are interesting- Parma grey, wine dark, and cornforth white. Maybe Little green could come up with wall paper for spaces and/or accent. 🎨 Maybe prime one whole wall for experimentation as that bright yellow is distracting.

Keep it simple. Two colors & light.

I think the blue would compliment the fireplace better than the green and yellow

I’m not a fan of multicolored rooms-but that’s personal preference. I think when you use one color, with a lighter ceiling, the eye doesn’t stop anywhere and it would bring the outdoors in; I have seen rooms with the ceiling painted with the wall color but I don’t have high ceilings and am not that brave. I like the brown but that’s probably because I’m painting my bedroom a dark brown with green undertones-I have light natural wood toned flooring though. Everything you have painted has always been a big improvement over what was there when you bought your chateau. The cottage looks amazing with the skylight! ❤️❤️

The corn “fart” white is beautiful!

Love the wine dark! You have a great eye for color so I’m sure whatever you chose will be amazing .

Keep walls and trim neutral....add colour with furniture , pillows etc..

You are very inspirational

I love the winedark. And I think the room would look fantastic completely painted in that color. It would be close to your inspiration picture.

Corn fart white😂 love it! I do like it very much and the darkest paint shade too!!

I'd paint the wainscoting all one color, and pick a color that would look good in that amount of coverage.

Agree with the blues!! Loved ❤

Wow!! The amount of light the skylight lets in is amazing!!

Hi Abby, I love what you're doing to the cute cottage. A moisture barrier & insulation added upstairs for sure.

I liked the wine dark blue, with a warm white/cream as contrast. Calm colors, would be lovely as a space to retreat to. Lots of your lovely artwork on the walls.

All the colours are so cold ,warmer and rich would be so much more inviting and modern ,lighter blues are softer , coffee colours are rich and vibrant 🎈🎈🎈

Thank you so much for your videos. I am listening to you laugh while I write. How lovely ,your laugh. I just want to encourage you to keep up your videos. They encourage me! so much! Because, oddly you remind me so much of the women who helped me so much in life and she is gone now, but there are always others you just have to search for them. Ha! Bless you! Laurie from Idaho

Love the roof and can't wait to see the colors you choose for your office, you have great taste so I know it will look great, so much hard work but in the end it will be worth it, have a wonderful week and God Bless

I like the wine dark for floor to ceiling trim. White for the ceiling trim and the lightest blue for the actual ceiling. When I was a child (about 60 years ago) my mother decorated our living room with a royal purple carpet and light, light blue walls. People thought she was out of her mind until they saw it. Carefully chosen fabrics brought the colors together. It was beautiful. PS-I do think the dark wine color would come closer to the feeling evoked from your inspiration picture.

I think the lighter pale blue colour is absolutely perfect and will complement the fireplace!

in the green-yellow room, I will do one solid color, three is too much. Choose one or two, use a darker color for the moldings aka borders, and lighter for the rest of it if you choose two colors, love the dark blue and the wine color.

It’s wonderful to see how everything is coming together. I think you have the patience of a saint. It’s so much fun to watch you. Good luck on your retreat. We will all keep watching.

The roof looks great! We made a drinking game.... When you were choosing colors, everytime you said "Corn___" we took a gulp of a nice Bordeaux red. Another great video. We will be ready and waiting to plaY aGain neXt weEk ThAankSs!

Loving the wine dark. Would make the room cozy. I'd only use 2 of the colors. Not a fan of the two tones on the paneling. But just my thoughts I don't live there. Your choice will be great. Waiting to see the room coming together.

So happy to see you taking off this wall paper and redo that room. These look so terrible and do not fit with the rest of your house. Good news! Suggestion: put the base of the wall in a clear color and the top, the light blue. From Canada

I look at the colors for the office and for me I think I would paint the trim in the wine color (dark blue grape) the walls in the light blue (if you want a lot of blue) and inside of the lower panels on the trim the cream color even though you did not try the cream on the inside of the lower panels I can visualize it there as a nice contrast to the wine color trim. Or paint the inside of the lower panels in the light blue and the cream color for the walls. I see the wine color as a beautiful color for the trim, but that's me. I like the three color theme too it's a large open room with high ceilings so it's doable and would be soothing and comfy given the colors you like the best. The cottage is coming together so nice and the fountain when done will be lovely. Thanks for sharing your Chateau Chronicles adventures!

Go with the Grey and the cornflower. Keep the room at just two colours. You can still achieve that warm moody pallet if you use the grey paint in the cornice area, the inside of the window areas and on the radiators. Don’t over do it with3 colours. I think it will be a nice balance with your dining and kitchen area. As a gardener I think you want the light from your terrace doors to breathe life into your office space. I also think stepping out of the and into the fountain space and court yard you don’t want to step out into the beautiful outdoor space from a dark room. Just my thoughts, 🎨👩‍🎨🖼️

For an artist, I am surprised by your color struggles. ❤ Trust your gut.😊

It’s looking awesome. I think you’re going to feel great when that main room is done. Château de Borie is beautiful thanks to you!!

Yes, wine dark and the ligihter gray and the white - BUT I LOVED THE "PICTURE YOU INSERTED AT THE BEFINNING OF THE DARK WALLS AND TRIM IN NAVY BLUE - THAT IS BEAUTIUL - SO YOUR CHOICE OF THE "WINE DARK" IS WHAT i'D PUT ALLLLLL OVER THAT ROOM...

Look at the photo you showed us, possibly consider using mostly the Wine Dark & use the other colours for small areas for highlighting

I love the rooftop! Everything is so beautiful. ❤

I say use 3 colors (plus not so yellow white for ceiling or use Parma on ceiling and at top areas of walls.) Use combo of Parma, Wine Dark (I say for larger wall surfaces), and find a Deep Eggplant color for trim (darker than the purple you now show on a slim vertical strip color swatch on wall.) Possibly use Parma in squares, or use the Wine Dark in squares and also on walls, with a unique and slightly more colorful motif hand-painted in each square, and a Deep Eggplant color for trim around Wine Dark squares. Then use Parma on areas at top of wall and onto ceiling, like the sky. The paint brand you are using seems to have a wonderful nuance of hues. My favorite here in USA is Pratt & Lambert Paints. Your progress is magical.

Abby, HGTV in the States has a lot of good suggestions on how to keep stink bugs away. With the amount you have you might want a little hand vacuum that has a bag so the bugs don’t stink up your main vacuum. I used peppermint oil and water spray to help keep spiders away, it really helped. Yea, the green and yellow is going away! You are getting so much accomplished.

I agree with you, I prefer the Wine dark, parma gray, & the corn farth white. Your chair would still be a lovely accent to the room! Given the sofa is a larger piece of furniture its possibly the more important one to consider .

Color drench everything in the Wine Dark. It would be so beautiful and dramatic! Google color drenching! You're doing an amazing job bringing life back to that beautiful chateau! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

So many things going on. Love the roof! Fountain will be cool. Interesting colors for the paint. Love the chair color. Love how you all work so fast!

Natural bug deterrent are dried Bay leaves. I buy them in bulk but you might have one growing to access your supply. Very helpful in all nooks and crannies.

Your office is getting a total transformation with these beautiful cool colors.

I love the blue and whites

3:14 cottage roof looks stunning!!

I also like the wine dark. Personally, I would paint the wainscoting solid wine dark. Carrying the wine dark up the wall would be dramatic. I can also see a lighter color on the walls. Have to go with corn fart strictly because of the nickname!😂😂😂 I am not good at visualizing the end result, so I would need an app or software program to try different schemes. Whatever you decide, it will be awesome.

Hi Annie, love the corlors you are considering. The light blue and the fart white😉 are great and would be erfect with either of thr dark colors you are considering. they will look fantastic with the mural. No more safe whites & lights. Be courageous! Have you ever tried Monocouche on the walls instead of plaster? Seen some others in France with great results. Think it’s easier to apply and lets stones breath too. Just a thought.❤❤❤

Two colors, and you can do a statement wall in the darker color and the rest of the walls light.

Painting each inside block of paneling would make me crazy, I’d paint the paneling all one color, a dark navy. The walls the white and the light blue the ceiling and moldings. Just my preference.

Wine dark....love. Or And love the purple ..with corn fart❤

As to the colours I think you're on the right track. When it comes to painting what colours where...don't make it too busy. The green colour combo was verging on too busy.

Spot on with your paint color decision. I would paint upper wall in Corn??? & bottom in the gorgeous blue/purple you picked, Wine???? Then pick the other detail moulding to add your lighter white-ish color, but I would keep it simple for Elegance-sake😊❤❤

Dark and moody!! Dark blues....to match your chair ❤

The winedark is beautiful…the panelling completely in that colour would be so rich looking.

I like the colors you’ve chosen. It takes some time to work out a plan.

Roof is beautiful!

You can choose a paint scheme and give it a lifespan then change, matching to furniture that will fade or change color when you shampoo it...

So the fire place has gray. That would be my inspiration. I also love the windows and the view of blue sky. So you could do a blue gray. I would solid one colour. Whatever you decide will be beautiful. I have to look at photos again as I don't know what to paint the window frames. I just love them.

Dark grey is lovely, would you consider a pale lilac on the wall, it should go with the blue.

It is amazing how they have done the tiled roof on the side looks very good . I think the Wind Dark colour looks very dark grey , maybe go back to the drawing board and look at more colours but thats my take on the room .

Oh! Love the solid enveloping dark colors idea for the whole room too! Yay

I'm looking forward to seeing the place where JB looks lived

Your color choices are nice! What ever your instincts hit you first is what I think you should do Abby! The roof is beautiful. Give Chloe kisses from Washington State! Much love and be safe over there. ❤️✝️🙏🏻

The cottage roof looks so much better. I look forward to what you decide on color for the salon and also seeing the fountain up and running. These things do take time with weather pending. Things are moving along nicely, although you likely wish the processes went faster. Best wishes always.❤

Where is Chloe when you need her to teach those stink bugs a lesson, not to hang out in your printer 😂 The roof is looking fantastic 🎉🎉 I like the three colours you chose eventually 😊

I think 3 colors are too many for this room. I love the "wine dark" for all of the paneling (incliding the baseboard and trim). Lighter color for ceiling. Luscious mural wallpaper for the walls. Brass accents. Yes, keep it cozy!

Love the colors you selected. Isn't there an app you can take a picture of your wall and insert the colors to get a visual of how they will look🤗 good luck, and it's just paint if you are not happy with the combination repaint. I know easy for me to say 🤗

I really like the dark blue color and your roof looks great.

I would use a wallpaper steamer to remove old wallpaper! So much easier for the job. Good luck and keep up the good work. Remember to think about curtains which would look great and consider light wall colors.

Beautiful studio. As an artist myself, it is so dreamy a space. One day I’d love to visit..

I am so glad that you are redoing that room. I really dislike the green & yellow & the stripes. I like the colours, but not combined as they were. Re: repainting, my preference would be for all of the woodwork to be one colour. Your work & progress are impressive. Congratulations👍🏻🇨🇦

Just a thought on the office colours. Since your mural depicts a scene perhaps you take the darker of the lighter blues and use it on the lower portion of the cornice and finish the top portion of the cornice in the lightest shade blue. It will act as the sky in the mural and give the room even more height. The room has such great light the the bottom panels can handle the darker colour you are leaning towards. It will ground the couch as well as it will blend seamlessly in with the darker lower panel. Its to bad the paper you choose is a mural. I once used wallpaper in the panel portions at the bottom like yours and it was quite lovely. I've so been enjoying your journey from the beginning. You are fearless Abbey! ❤

Love the wine dark and corn fart. The light blues look like for a nursery.

The navy walls with the navy sofa would be cozy!

Love the colours you chose for the office. Good luck with sorting where to paint what. Very exciting seeing all your progress. Wonderful Abby.🌻

I love the deep blue cozy office picture you posted. It is so much fun watching you showering your chateau with so much love!

Things are definitely coming together at the Chateau. Your retreat would be fun for all attending. Yes definitely like the dark blue

Abby, I love the photo example of the room you showed us, but everything was painted the same color, which is very elegant In my opinion I wouldn’t do the woodwork in two different colors. The walls can be a different color or the same color as the woodwork as in the photo and then choose one wall as your mural wall. With nice artwork on the walls and dark wood furniture and maybe upholstered seating matching the wall color, it will feel very cozy.

Yippee Sunday night viewing sorted

Everyone has a different take on the colors for your office I know you will make the selection that you feel is appropriate! I believe there is an app that you can download to help with making the right choice..monochrome or adding wallpaper different trim for the ceiling that way you actually see how the colors will actually look ..so exciting! Looking forward to seeing what you select! The wine dark is really nice! The cornfart 😂I was laughing so funny! The roof looks amazing! The stinkbugs are quite a nuisance! Perhaps get a few diffusers and use peppermint oil ? I believe that was the oil you used inside of the nightstand? Hopefully there some natural oils that will help eliminate them! So much progress this past week!! Your retreats are doing so well! Congratulations Abby! I hope you have a great week ahead!! Thank you for sharing I greatly enjoy watching every Sunday evening! Au Revoir 💜

Thank you Abby for all your hard work producing these vlogs… you make my day! Here in Toronto, Canada.

Wine dark is great , keep it simple.

Not a fan of the green and yellow room, but I love the new wallpaper samples you picked! A different greet would be beautiful, deeper? There's a gray green that's really nice if you aren't sure. Love all you're doing!

It will be so nice to see the green and yellow gone.

Josephine Bakers Chateau 😢 can’t wait to see it.

I think colour drench the room a real moody tone. The blues are gorgeous.

I like the light blue with the darker blue around the edges

Abby, get yourself a step ladder, lol! I finally purchased one to help reach my upper cabinets and I love it!

So fun! I would do the wood panels all the wine dark, no colored squares. agree with the lighter light blue. Can't wait to see.

Why don't you save a little work and paint the yellow white?..see how you like it..quite a nice green but that yellow grates on my nerves! Would be worth a try!

I love watching the progress! What an inspirational undertaking! 😊

4:01 fountain project exciting! Never lacking for interesting projects!

I like the light blue. Before you showed your colors I was thinking how nice a pale blue would be in that room. I would paint the chair rail molding area all one color. It looks more refined and less busy. Also I would paint the ceiling molding all white. Really fun to think about. It is going to be lovely.

Definitely deep and moody colours

I really liked the green and yellow color on that room

Monochromatic colors would be very elegant and soothing (not to mention an easier decision!)

Just my two cents worth but I'd paint all the woodwork the darker blue. I always find when you paint the internal squares a different colour, especially not a tonal colour it can look a bit like a circus tent. Too many bits and pieces picked out! Your inspo pic is stunning. If in doubt, copy 🤣🤣🤣. I love when you saturate with colour so the whole wall is dark and then maybe do the ceiling in Cornforth White. Have fun.

Agree on your color choice- not the purple color. It will be striking!

6:38 great corner for easels! Can film there too with the soft light coming in!

Could you do a light color then put a piece of lovely wallpaper in the rectangle at the bottom? As if it's a frame? Might be bad but might be fabulous.